Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

["Damon L. Chesser" <dchesser4@cox.net>]

Ed Lawson wrote:

> Nothing heard before, I will try again.
>
> I have a USB 2 Sony Microvault 256Meg pen drive.
> I am running SID.
> The pen drive is recognized as a hub and mass storage device and listed
> as sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4.
> The devices are listed properly in usbview.
>
> But, I cannot mount it.  I have gone through mount -t vfat  /dev/sdax
> /usbstcik for all four and get error of "wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on /dev/sdax or too many mounted file systems"
>
> Trying fdisk results in an error  "unable to read /dev/sdax"
>
> Anyone using this particular pen drive successfully?  Any suggestions?
> I am using a Memorex pen drive without difficulty on same machine.
> What is frustrating is the device is recognized so there must be a way
> to make it work and, of course, it works under Windows so the device is
> OK.
>
> TIA
>
> Ed Lawson
>
>
>  
What do you have listed in fstab for proc?

I have:

#usbfs      /proc/bus/usb   usbfs    rw,devmode=0660,devgid=432   0      
0    
#none     /proc/bus/usb    usbfs    defaults   0  0
proc    /proc  proc  defaults  0 0

the first commented out entry would let me mount a usb harddrive, but 
not a pendrive.  Same with the 2nd.  The third lets me mount both the 
harddrive and the pendrive, BUT I had to change the fstab entry for the 
hardrive from sdb1 to sda1 and the pendrive from sda to sdb.  If you 
realy have 4 partitions on your pendrive then good, if you only have one 
partition on the drive then you need sda.  I don't understand all this, 
it is close to magic.  I guess this is why Linus does not like this 
system and a new one is out with 2.6.0 kernels.  Hope this helps

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Damon L. Chesser
dchesser@bigfoot.com